Reader Submittal

Reader Ride! A Sort Of "Combat" CT90!

Nate Beveridge sends in these pics of his cool custom Honda CT90.

He Writes in:

I am a daily reader of your blog. I love it, and I love your taste in bikes. You put up a couple of pics from my trip to the grand canyon on my VTX1800 a few months ago, and now I have another I’d like to share. This is a 1970 Honda CT90 I built from the ground up. It has a 125cc clone engine with a 22mm Mikuni carb, and let me tell you, it MOVES. I painted it to match WWII era OD green, with some satin black accents. Everything is new and improved. Upgraded suspension, CDI electronic ignition, 12v electronics, leather seat, manual clutch, and a Hella off-road headlight.


I have it for sale, http://eugene.craigslist.org/mcy/1996768461.html, but you don’t need to share that. I’m not trying to use you to sell it, I’m just very proud of it and would like to share it with your readers. (I do have some more details in the ad, however).


I couldn’t have done it without parts, advice and jabbing from Dave, Trish and Frank at Cyclepsycho (www.cyclepsycho.com).


Thanks so much for your effort, I really do enjoy checking it out each morning before heading out to my shop to wrench. I’m in the beginning stages of owning my own shop, www.tsunamimotorcycles.com, and am loving every minute of it. Forever two wheels!

Thanks Nate!  Looks great and best of  luck with the shop!  Keep us posted on how you’re doing!

Reader Ride. Clean R80

I’d love to find a rider in this condition.  Some folks are a LOT better at general maintenance and cleanup than I’ll ever be.  Sweet Ride.

Anthony Writes in:

Hi Steve,

Thought I’d fire you some pics of my daily ride, which is an almost stock 1989 BMW R80.

I had been looking for an old R80 that I could pull apart, and do a Ritmo Sereno style custom job on. While looking, I came across this 20 year old (at the time) machine that was in pristine condition and had only 15,000km (9,320 miles) on the clock. The bike had a full service record, original books and all receipts. Although I was looking for something to customise, I took her for a spin and fell in love.


I guess the special thing about this bike is the fact that it in such original condition, the only mods are Staintune pipes and the BMW clock and voltmeter.

I still want to get my hands on a base bike to build a cafe racer from but at this stage I think it would be sacrilege make any changes to this one.

I’ve had a bunch of other bikes in the past but this one is by far the best city bike I’ve owned. After about a year, I’m still in love.


Hopefully it’s not too plain and standard for MBPOTD.

Hell No!  Thanks for the Pics!

You learn something new ever day… Reader Ride. The Sym Wolf 125.

Jesus Buisan sends in ome pictures of a very interesting bike that I’ve never heard of.  I did some looking around and in the USA they look to be primarily a scooter company but the base model to this bike look s pretty good.  An Jesus did a great job of tuning it up.

He Writes:

I am a follower of your blog I look every day and a big fan of classic bikes, I have a Bultaco Sherpa T 80, 1971 and Sym Wolf 125 small bike I have been transformed with minor changes until it was to my liking, as closely possible for a British bike of the 1960, I see you just hang up pictures of small bikes, but I’m sending you some pictures of my little, if you will hang them.
Greetings from Zaragoaza- Spain 

Reader Ride. Sweet Parilla 250 Work In Progress.

Danilo writes in:


Love your site.  Thought you’d get a kick out of my Parilla 250 project.  Purchased it in Minneapolis last month, hadn’t run in years.  Cleaned up the points, new battery and swapped out the VHB Dellorto for the original SS1 with remote bowl that came in the parts box, gave it a couple of kicks and… Nothing.  Took it out in the alley and it bump-started on the third try.

Put 50 miles on it this weekend, including a stop at Acetoberfest in Chicago.  Still bumping it, but as soon as I get new points and condenser that’ll be a thing of the past.  When winter hits the frame goes out for checking/bracing, and then I’m going to give it the cosmetic treatment.

 That’s a heck of a find!  Perfect starting point!  Thank for the Pics!

What  beautiful engine!

Reader Ride. A Portland Oregon Custom Cafe.

Phil Writes in:

Hi,
  My name is Phil G. and i live in Portland Or. I would like to share some pics of my 71 cb750. This has been my project for the last 2 1/2 years. I would like to sit here and tell you that i did it all myself but i have to give credit were credit is due. While the over all concept and design of the bike was all me there are a few very important elements to it that would not have been possible without help from some very talented friends of mine so i have to say thanks to Sam Hill for welding the custom oil tank and the 5″ stretch into the fuel tank, and to Sean Smith for laying down the beautiful black paint, Paul Burdette for the stage 3 port job and general engine building help, Ginger Mccabe of New Church Customs for the seat pad, and to Deon Staffelbach for the awesome photography,other than that i pretty much did everything myself.
  here is a list of mods and custom parts
     engine bored out to 850
     stage three ported head
     super flow valves
     webcam 63a grind
     cyclex super rods
     balanced and lightened crank and rotor
     under cut tranny
     all new bearings and chains inside
     cr 29 carbs
     custom aluminum oil tank
     stock fuel tank stretched 5″ with knee dents
     custom rear sets (modeled after dunstall rear sets from the 70’s)
     custom s.s. muffler
          Anyway, thanks for looking
                  Phil

 My pleasure Phil.  Thanks for sharing!

Reader Ride. Sweet Honda Hawk GT.

Jack Michaud Writes in:

Hi,
My dad turned me on to your blog. Nice stuff! Here’s a pic of my 1989 Honda Hawk 650GT. Why Honda gifts this market segment to Suzuki I’ll never know!

I couldn’t agree more. This bike was years ahead of the SV and they gave just up on it too soon. Damm shame.

Interesting Reader Submittal. VF500 Magna Tracker.

Paul Robinson sends in a pic of his interesting build.

Hmmm… There’s a lo of potential here. I never thought of these bikes as tracker material. There’s a million of them out there too at affordable prices. Just saying..

Reader Ride From Spain! A Honda CM400T Street Tracker.

This may be the nicest CM400T on the planet. Damm that is cool.

I’ve said it here many many times. You do NOT need big money or big engines to build fantastic bikes. And here we have another excellent example of that. This beauty was built by Mario Trigo Salorino wo writes in:


Hello, my name is Mario and I write from Spain. I’m a fan of your blog for a long time. Always show the style of bikes that I like. It is a daily appointment required.


I want to show a personal project I recently completed. It is a Honda CM400T, base uncommon, has been done by me and some friends. I do not define his style, bobber, track, brat … is a modest project but I’m very happy with the result. Major changes are, handlebars, handlebar switch, repositioning of the electrical components and battery box, exhaust, rear set, clocks, modified original seat and paint job. Appear on your blog would be a reward for my work. I hope you like.


A greeting and continued with this great blog. Muchas gracias.


PS. Sorry for my English.

Your English is fine Mario It’s an excellent build. I am labeling at a Street Tracker but you’re right it has elements of other styles in it as well.  ! Thank you very much for sending in these great picture!

Reader Ride. A nicely done Scrambler.

Thanks Ian! Well done. I like the Norman Hyde pipes.

What was the bike that "Lawerence of Arabia" owned?

A Brough Superior of course.

Thanks to an alert reader!

Hi there! Thanks for a brilliant site.

I was walking around the Imperial War Museum in London yesterday and came across Lawrence of Arabia’s SS100 Brough Superior. I’m not sure that it’s suitable for the site, but I thought you’d like it. Lawrence owned eight of these beauties and they were all called George!

Thanks again
Jezza